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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

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The Pandora Papers, the third, and largest, leak of confidential financial documents of the global uber-wealthy (following on from The Panana Papers and the Paradise Papers), has unearthed vastly more financially dubious matters about tax avoidance, property ownership, political funding and fiscal hypocrisy than those involved would probably have liked.

The UK Government's plans to help sort out the Supply Chain issues with the immeidate release of 300 short term working visa's for European HGV drivers, and another 4,700, to come, has had only 127 applicants... from the entire EU bloc. I can't imagine why they weren't snapped up [/irony]. But not to worry, apparently it's NOT a crisis, it's just "one of those things" or somesuch and absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. Uh-huh.

No matter how bad your work day is today, remember that someone, somewhere did something which resulted in Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, all having a global blackout for several hours yesterday, and they probably know who they are (even if no one else has a clue). For some the blackout was deeply frustrating, for others, something of a relief I'm sure.

The first new treatment for sickle-cell anaemia in twenty years is being rolled out in the UK.

Bardcore cover of an 80's classic, because why not?

A trailer for "Tick, Tick BOOM!", a movie about the life of Jonathan Larson, who create dthe musicla Rent) has dropped. Lin Manuel Miranda directs and Andrew Garfield stars.

Shorter than usual due to work pressures (and no, I don't work for Facebook) but away you go!

Question of the week: Anyone got any "hidden gem" streaming shows to recommend?

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Star Trek the Next Generation season four

The Best of Both Worlds Part 2: Patrick Steward strips down to his underpants and gets covered in grey makeup.

This was a good episode but the way they resolved the cliff-hanger was kind of lame. ("Mr Worf blow him up" "It didn't work sir"). There are consequences for this, so it's not that bad, but fans in 1990 must have felt let down.

And they remembered they could use the saucer separation. Will wonders never cease!

Family: Throughout this episode I was hoping that Picard and his brother would get into a fight. And my dream came true. They punched one another and rolled about in the mud.
Picard's brother, sister-in-law and nephew seem like decent people. It's a shame they'll die for cheap drama. An awful fate....

We go to a French vineyard, but the only people we see have English accents. This leads me to believe that at some point prior to the 24th century, England conquered France.

Also, we learn that Worf was raised by an Eastern European couple. Learning that he's Slavic explains much about Worf.

Brothers: Data's father brainwashes him into hijacks the Enterprise. Data has bad luck with family, doesn't he?

Do all Lore episodes have him steal Data's identity? Because it's getting kind of old.

Suddenly Human: The crew comes across a human raised by the aliens who killed his parents. Oddly the writers ignored the obvious parallels with Worf.

Most of the main cast came across as kind of bigoted in this one, I feel. I realize they were extras but maybe Dr Crushers' medical team should be focusing on the four other members of the alien crew and not just the one who's human?

Legacy: We meet Tasha Yar's sister. She wears a jump suit that highlights her rear. Oh yeah!
The Tasha Yar they talk about seems way more interesting than the one we got.

Reunion: Picard covers up for Worf after he murders a Klingon chancellor.

I guess this was a decent episode but it seems like a shame to kill off Worf's girlfriend in her second appearance. Ah well Worf's a father now, which only makes him more attractive. Thankfully he also realizes that a starship is a terrible place to raise a child, so he sends him off to be raised by his parents.

Future Imperfect: We learn they have terrible birthday cakes in the future.
We also see a nightmarish future in which Picard has hair.

Final Mission: Wesley finally leaves! Another character Miles O'Brian has outlasted. At this rated he'll be the only character left.
It had some impressive location work. I think they dumped a shuttle in the desert and filmed there.

The Loss: Troi loses her powers. Now who will state the obvious?
It also seems to imply that Troi relied solely on her psychic powers and otherwise is not a very good counsellor.

You know the writers seem to have gotten better at writing Troi doing her job, but they seem to struggle with having her do stuff outside of that.

Data's Day: Miles O'Brian's fiancé breaks up with him and he accidently kills an ambassador (Seemingly. Thankfully all he did was help a spy escape).

The Wounded: An O'Brian episode? Fleshing out his backstory, his marriage and giving him a traumatic past? Tasha Yar would have killed for that.

Also, apparently for the past few years the Federation has been at war with the Cardassians for the past few years. So, if Picard ever talked about how Starfleet wasn't a military force in the first three seasons, he was a liar.

First Contact: Riker meets an alien fucker. Sadly, it's an exploitative alien fucker. All true alien fuckers respect life in it's many forms and understand the importance of consent.

Devil's Due: Picard turns into a shirtless monster.

Well, it seems like the Boba Fett show is actually going to meet its December release date. Obviously, it's going to be about him renovating Jabba's old palace and working to create a less hostile work environment. You know clear out the old dungeons, turn them into an employee break room with some comfy chairs and a ping pong table.

If you're like me and watch direct to DVD Scooby Doo films for the homoerotic subtext, Moon Monster Madness has a lot to offer. Daphne spends a lot of time with an astronaut lady. Hot damn. You know it's usually Velma who gets the lesbian subtext, so it's nice for them to branch out a bit.

Scooby Doo FrankenCreepy: Pros: Velma wears a neat evil dress. Cons: Fred says treasure correctly.

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The reason the BoBW second part is such an anticlimax is the writers went on vacation without knowing where or how they were going to end the story. Thus setting a dreadful precedent for every Trek two parter ever since, and showing why the best Trek stories always fit in just one episode. Sadly, though, the model of write one bit and leave the rest for later/someone else has been adopted, not just by all subsequent Trek writers, but throughout the entire entertainment industry. Leading to some properties having instalments that clash wildly in tone and characterisation between said instalments. In many ways BoBW was the worst Trek episode, in a meta sense, because of the way it encouraged such irresponsibility and the idea that all seasons should end on a cliffhanger.

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